Date   : Tue, 22 Nov 1988 16:20:11 GMT
From   : spar!snjsn1!bilbo!greg@decwrl.dec.com (Greg Wageman)
Subject: North Star Woes

In article <[E.ISI.EDU]19-Nov-88.10:44:09.SAC.CCSO-OLA> SAC.CCSO-OLA@E.ISI.EDU
writes:
>I'm the lucky owner of a really nifty-swifty 64K 2-floppy North
>Star Horizon, acquired second-hand with virtually no
>documentation.  It runs North Star CP.M 2.2.
> [....]
>Anyways, when I go to use the un-LBR'd COM files, the North Star
>just gronks the primary (logged-in) drive for a few seconds and
>then reports             NO SPACE 
>    Neat, eh?  I thought the problem was some BIOS modifications
>I made, but the problem persists even when I boot from a nearly-
>virgin system disk (free of my hacking).
>
>So, I'm open to suggestions.  Should I try re-shipping the files
>to the NS?  Look at possible hardware problems?  Pray to whatever
>formless demons control CP/M bugs?

That wonderful, verbose NO SPACE message is printed by the CP/M
program loader when it runs out of TPA for an executable.  In other
words, you don't have enough RAM to run whatever programs you are
trying to run.

As I recall, the North Star didn't use the standard memory
organization for CP/M (TPA started at 0x100, CCP/BDOS/BIOS at top of
memory is the standard).  If your arrangement is different, you will
have to relocate the binaries before they will run in a different
configuration.



Greg Wageman                   ARPA:  greg%sentry@spar.slb.com
Schlumberger Technologies      UUCP: ...!decwrl!spar!sentry!greg
Opinions expressed herein are solely the responsibility of the author.


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